Random thoughts on public toilets

This is mainly a post for men if they even read blogs. And it may even be for women too, I just haven't been in to many women's bathrooms of late to know if this will all make sense to them.

Have you ever noticed how on some urinals, right down there in the "collection area" there is the name of the company and a phone number. I wonder what they are trying to get you to do? I first noticed it many years ago before cell phones were even very popular so I guess they expected you to write down the phone number somehow while you were there and get back to them at some point and relate your experiences of using their urinal. Now a days with cell phones, it's much more convenient. If you're nimble enough, you can just call them right there on the spot while you're using their product... I'm guessing the conversation would go something like... "Hi there, my name is Bob and I just was calling the number that I see in the urinal that I'm using right now." "Oh yes Bob, Thank you very much for calling and for choosing our product, let me get you to our customer service rep." "Hello Bob, this is Mary from Waxie International, thank you for calling, please tell me about your experience with our urinal today." "Oh well... it's nice, I mean there IS a little splashback still and the little flush sensor went off a little premature, everything else seems to be up to par."  Anyway it would be an awkward conversation because other guy's would be piping in with their comments during your phone call "Hey tell them they need to be a little higher" and "how 'bout making them different colors... we're getting tired of white." "Come on guy's this is my conversation!!"

I used to pretend the little flush sensor on the top of the urinal wasn't really a sensor but was a camera and they would just watch to see when you were done and walking away. And then some guy in a big room of monitors would be like "well he's done!" FLUSH. Every once in a while I'd pretend like I was done and start to walk away and when the toilet flushed I'd jump back in and keep going... then I'd look into the camera "Caught Ya!" I'd say with a grin!

They say 33 percent of men don't wash their hands after using the bathroom... (I think it's way higher than that) I make up for some of them because I double and triple wash my hands sometimes. It bugs me though, the bathrooms that when you're inside the bathroom have the door opening in. And then they have the hand blowdryer so they don't have paper towels and you have to use your shirt sleeve to open the door... or you just have to wait in the bathroom pretending to be doing something until someone walks in from the outside and then you catch the door with your foot... that's always a little awkward. That should be the first thing they think of when designing a building "Now I want all bathroom doors to open out!"

Uncomfortable toilet situation